Testing Proves Advanced Technology For AMDR
By Michael Fabey .
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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.—As competition heats up for the U.S. Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) program, the focus will be on developing the S-band digital beamforming technology on a shipboard platform in time for the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Flight III upgrades planned for later this decade.
Digital beamforming is an approach to phased-array ...
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